Database Engineer (DBA)
Manage and modernize a database estate primarily on GCP, focusing on PostgreSQL and SQL Server. You will handle administration, automation via Python/Bash, performance tuning, and support a hybrid cloud/on-premise environment while participating in an on-call rotation.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- UK, Manchester
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- PostgreSQL production administration experience
- Microsoft SQL Server production administration
- SQL query optimization and execution plans
- Deploying and managing database infrastructure in GCP
- Supporting HA/DR architectures and replication
- Backup and recovery strategies and hands-on restore
- GitHub and CI/CD source control workflows
- Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash
- Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring
- Willingness to join a rotating on-call rota
Nice to have
- Migration experience between database engines
- Couchbase or comparable NoSQL experience
- CockroachDB or other distributed SQL platforms
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform or Ansible)
- Database CI/CD tooling (Flyway, Liquibase or Redgate)
- On-premise infrastructure (servers, storage, networking)
- Kafka or streaming platforms
Full description
About THG Ingenuity
THG Ingenuity is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology, robotics, and operations platform built for global ecommerce. Developed through more than two decades of operating ecommerce and retail services at scale, its software and automation capabilities have been engineered, tested, and refined through the real-world demands of managing complex commerce operations. Today, THG Ingenuity provides an integrating operating environment that enables brands to intelligently optimise the entire commerce lifecycle from browsing and checkout to AI inventory management and forecasting, automated fulfilment, carrier control, and customer experience. The platform comprises:
- THG Fulfil: The fulfilment operating system for global ecommerce. Delivered via a proprietary SaaS and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, THG Fulfil orchestrates every stage of checkout, fulfilment, delivery, and customer experience through an integrated system.
- THG Studios: The UK's most innovative creative hub, helping brands create content that connects, experiences that engage, and IP that scales, all from its end-to-end, in-house facilities.
- THG Commerce: A cloud-native technology stack enabling retailers and brands to create intelligent, AI-powered, digital shopping experiences, while integrated marketplace and social commerce functionality allows brands to reach customers across every sales channel
With its expertise in building and scaling brands, THG Ingenuity is uniquely positioned to bring pertinent, pragmatic, and global know-how across all aspects of commerce.
Database Engineer (DBA)Company: THG Ingenuity Location: Manchester (Head Office)
Reports to: Database Platform Manager
Role Overview
We are looking for a Database Engineer to help run and improve our database platform.
Our estate runs on Google Cloud Platform following a recent migration to self-managed services. There is plenty still to do in the next phase of modernising the estate, and you will be hands-on in that work as well as in the day-to-day running of the platform.
You will work alongside a small team of database engineers and closely with engineering and infrastructure teams, keeping our database environments secure, reliable and performant. There is real scope to grow here, and you will be supported to deepen your technical expertise and take on more as you do.
The role participates in a rotating on-call rota and occasionally requires out-of-hours work to support deployments, maintenance or incident response.
Key ResponsibilitiesDatabase administration
- Install, configure, maintain and upgrade PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments across development, test and production